It sure has been a long time since we've been bloggin! For me, it's been a busy, stressful school year, so when extra time is available, I enjoy using it to reeeeeeeeelax. But as summer quickly approaches, we've started to begin planning our projects. Indoor painting will be the biggest project, with at least four rooms definitely getting painted, perhaps even a fifth! As we progress (and hopefully not regress!!), we will keep you in the loop.
On Saturday, I invited my buddies Pat and Adam over to spend the day. Ash was gone for the weekend because she went to the Adirondacks to celebrate Jessica's bachelorette weekend! The three of us hadn't gotten together as just the guys for way too long.
Adam asked me if it felt good to have our house and if it felt like our own yet. Truthfully, I've loved having this house together with Ash, but because it hasn't been fully decorated or because we haven't completely finished any of the rooms, it didn't always feel like home. That is, until the spring came. Being able to take care of our property has been so rewarding because now we can walk around all over it, instead of just looking at how pretty it was during the winter.
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| This is mine! All mine!! Uhhhh, I mean, ours. All ours!! :) |
Having friends over to enjoy the property made it feel more like home too! We played bocce ball in the backyard (Nice win, Adam) and hung out on the back deck. Fortunately, Ash and I didn't have to buy patio furniture because we already bought it for the balcony of our old apartment.
I asked Adam to bring a voltage tester to the house because one project Ashley and I still hadn't completed was installing new wall sconces for our bedroom. Unfortunately, our master bedroom doesn't have a light switch so the only way to be positive that the power was successfully turned off was to use a voltage tester. Adam helped me, errr...I assisted Adam, in installing the sconces.
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| First, we screwed in the support bars that the sconce attaches to. |
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| Next, we attached the bars into the electrical outlet. |
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| Pat was there for moral support. |
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| Good work, Pat. |
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| I was asked to hold a flashlight... |
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| ...and then I was asked to hold the sconce. (How Adam wound up doing this, I still have no clue). |
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| There she is!! |
The electrical outlet had two wires coming out of it: a black and a white. The sconce had three wires: a black, a white, and a copper. Black goes with black and white goes with white. However, the copper wire connects to the ground wire (used with a three-prong outlet). Since this old outlet didn't have a ground wire, all you need to do is wrap the copper wire around a screw. Some sconces, like ours, have a green painted screw that indicates where the copper wire needs to go.
After installing both sconces, here is the finished product (excuse the made bed if it doesn't meet your standards--remember, Ash was gone for the weekend haha):
Friends certainly make projects go by much easier than doing it alone. Thanks so much, Pat and Adam!!
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| And to think, we completed that project after all of these!! |
